Hi David, See below. David McGuigan wrote: > Hey guys, > Last night was my first UPHPU meeting. Great presentations, thanks for > having me. > > My name's David McGuigan, and I'm a full time Web developer about a year and > change out of school and have been toying around with a pretty interesting > idea. > > I've got kind of a random, fun request for the group. It's a chance to > really show off PHP and possibly recruit some new developers to it. If > anyone would be interested, I'm in need of an intermediate or expert, > recognizably-efficient PHP developer with a little bit of charisma able to > get to Salt Lake once or twice (I'll gladly pay for gas and lunch) to sit in > with me (I'll be doing this with a few other developers from other languages > too) and record some really short, light, PHP tutorials with screen and > audio capturing software that I'll be purchasing specifically for this > purpose (just screen, no web cam). Well, more like PHP demonstrations than > tutorials really. > > Here are some examples of videos we might record: > 1. Installing PHP > 2. Connecting to a MySQL database and making some simple queries > 3. Displaying the results with an HTML/CSS front end > 4. Creating a simple listing, editing and updating form page to manage a > table's data > 5. Some simple AJAX techniques with PHP backends > 6. Sending an email with PHP > > Nothing too major, and the demos are totally flexible. This won't take more > than a few hours (depending on how long it takes to do any of the stuff in > PHP ) > > Long story short, I'm looking to get a single developer from each of the > main server side products (PHP, Ruby, "Microsoft", Java, and ColdFusion, > etc.) to record these demos to show how to do the exact same Web app type > things in each language. > > The reason I'm looking for a more-experienced/efficient developer is so when > we're putting these videos together people from the represented discipline > won't feel like the language itself was misrepresented by a particularly > slow or inexperienced programmer. > > For example I've got 4 years ColdFusion experience, so I write ColdFusion > about 15x faster than maybe someone who's been at it for 6 months. I'm not > really concerned with how much time you've been writing PHP so much as just > getting someone visibly good. Someone that other PHP developers would see in > these videos and go, "Yeah, that's about right" or "Nice! That guy's fast!" > > If anyone can help out on this or knows a PHP-er that'd be into it let me > know. If you have particular frameworks ( MVC, ORM, what have you ) that you > use in your development we can definitely explore including them in the > demos if it'll speed up your coding and make the PHP demos faster and more > impressive. I really want PHP to look good here, no ulterior motives. > > What I'm really worried about is recording these videos and having > ColdFusion look so much better than the other languages that it seems staged > or exaggerated, so it's probably be a good idea for the person to use what's > generally accepted as the best PHP IDE available (we'll have a computer set > up ready for all of this stuff that you can install anything to, even a > trial) and any PHP-specific best practices in the code they write. > > Anyone who's interested please write back. Thanks! >
Who will be the audience for these videos? Will they be freely available to the general public? Alvaro _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
